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Online Event – Mabel Shaw OBE
Online Event Using ZoomMabel Shaw OBE with Penny Smith Penny will be telling us the story of a Wolverhampton grocers daughter and her work with the London Missionary Society. Penny is Chair of […]
Online Event – Wills before 1858
Online Event Using ZoomWills before 1858 with Mark Thursfield Our ancestors didn’t need to be wealthy to leave a will. Mark will show us what we can expect from early wills, how they […]
Bromsgrove: Alms Houses – A Home for the Poor
Online Event Using ZoomOnline Event - Speaker: Ned Williams
Online Event – Civil Registration
Online Event Using ZoomCivil Registration with Jackie Cotterill Jackie will explain Civil Registration, how it came about, how it evolved and how it relates to other areas of interest to family historians. […]
Online Event – Writing Your Family History
Writing Your Family History Mike Sharpe will show us various approaches to writing and presenting a family history, either in print or online. Here he describes how to build basic […]
Bromsgrove: The Boer War
Online Event Using ZoomOnline Event - Speaker: John Butterworth
Online Event – The 1939 Register
Online Event Using ZoomThe 1939 Register Ann Simcock will explain to us how the Register came about and how it can be used to assist with researching our more recent ancestry. She will […]
Online Event – Uncle George, Lost in France
Online Event Using ZoomSearching for Uncle George, Lost in France 1916 Uncle George joined the army the day after War was declared in 1914. As a well educated young man working in the […]
Bromsgrove: What’s in a Name – Talking Butts
Online Event Using ZoomOnline Event - Speaker: Anthony Paulton-Smith
Online Event – Jacqui Kirk: Roots Investigator
Jacqui Kirk is a Professional Genealogist, based in Warwickshire. If you’ve read any of the genealogy detective novels, such as the Morton Farrier ones by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, you may […]
Online Event – Tompson or Thompson
Tompson or Thompson The story of how family history research went wrong, or did it ? Perhaps I was wrong initially and the documents I was looking at later were […]
Online Event – Criminal Records
Online Event Using ZoomResearching Criminal Records with Penny Smith We are frequently shocked when finding out how severely our criminal ancestors were punished for what now seem the slightest of offences. In 1868 […]